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Santa Claus Rally or Crash?

Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way we have 3 full weeks of Trading left in 2019.     The question is will there be a Santa Rally or a Santa Crash on the Financial Markets?  We all remember the market dip last December when the S&P 500 alone lost…
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To Bank Or Not To Bank?

To Bank … or not to Bank?

First apologies to Shakespeare for blatantly abusing one of his quotes. However, the topic of setting a bank for your trades is one that is widely discussed and I thought it was a nice link!   What is a bank point? When you are running multi-contract trades you obviously have…
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What Are Your Trading Goals?

What Are Your Trading Goals? When I am having a trading discussion with someone, the topic eventually comes up – What are your goals? I want to make money! A common goal for a lot of people is – I want to make a certain amount of dollars per day.…
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I Just Needed To Get Out Of The Way!

I Just Needed To Get Out Of The Way! So, if you have read my last 2 posts, I presented my thought process (hopefully logically) about why I chose to go with automated trading and specifically, Inteligex. So, you would think that when I turned it on, I trusted the…
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Trust The Math You Must!

Trust the math you must! The next step In my last post, I talked about why I decided to go with an automated system. The next step in my research was to decide on which automation company. There are lots of options out there, but once you start looking, the…
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Manual vs Auto Trading

Manual vs auto trading For me, the choice to move to an automated system was relatively easy; you may be considering it now. Let me share my thought process… The Emotional Element I know I have trouble sometimes not wanting to take another trade if the last one lost because…
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